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squishiful · Jun 27th, 2005, 5:24 PM

Is there anyway to find the number of spaces in a String? Thanx!

Mjordan2nd · Jun 27th, 2005, 5:28 PM

Lets say you have String a:

String [] temp = a.split(" ");
System.out.println(temp.length);

That would be an easy way to do it. You could look through and count if you wanted, as well with a loop.

squishiful · Jun 27th, 2005, 5:30 PM

perfect!
thanx!

VigilanteP@comcast.net · Jul 6th, 2005, 1:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mjordan2nd

Lets say you have String a:

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String [] temp = a.split(" ");
System.out.println(temp.length);

That would be an easy way to do it. You could look through and count if you wanted, as well with a loop.

That won't work.

If string a is "hello world" then temp's length will be 2 since it will split the string at the space. Obviously there is only one space.

It should be

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System.out.println(temp.length - 1);

skuinders · Jul 6th, 2005, 2:09 PM

those wont capture spaces at the end of a string.

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String a = "hello world  "; // 3 spaces

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count = a.split(" ").length-1; // count == 1

I think the classic approach is probably the way to go:

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for (int i=0; i<a.length(); i++) {
   if(a.charAt(i)==' ')
	  count++;
} // count == 3

mackenga · Jul 6th, 2005, 5:06 PM

...heh heh heh...or:

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while (i < a.length())
  count += a.charAt(i++) == ' ' ? 1 : 0;

Sorry, the evil laugh was because that's just a less readable version. I can never resist the opportunity to use the post-increment or the compact conditional to reduce the clarity of perfectly good C or C-like code.

Mjordan2nd · Jul 6th, 2005, 6:43 PM

Yea, temp.length-1. I didn't think of that.

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Originally Posted by skuinders

those wont capture spaces at the end of a string.

And yea, didn't quite think of that either. I guess the loop would be the way to go then.

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